Salman Rushdie Quotes about Reality

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Reality is a question of perspective.

Salman Rushdie

Reality, Perspective

Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.229, Random House

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

Salman Rushdie

Time, Past, Reality

Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.229, Random House

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Salman Rushdie

Reality, Ideas, Religion

Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.

Salman Rushdie

Memories, Reality, Special

Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.292, Random House

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Salman Rushdie

Acceptance, Reality, Air

Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

Salman Rushdie

Art, Powerful, Reality

Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Salman Rushdie

Reality, Legends, Facts

[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

Salman Rushdie

Reality, Race, Triumph

"Shalimar the Clown". Book by Salman Rushdie, books.google.ru. October 23, 2008.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

Salman Rushdie

Reality, What Matters, Absence

1981 Midnight's Children,'Alpha and Omega', bk.2.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

Salman Rushdie

Reality, Men, Construction

I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case; and maybe this was the difference between my Indian childhood and Pakistani adolescence--that in the first I was beset by an infinity of alternative realities, while in the second I was adrift, disoriented, amid an equally infinite number of falsenesses, unrealities and lies.

Salman Rushdie

Country, Lying, Reality

Salman Rushdie Quotes about Reality

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